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It all starts with a funeral. Annie Graham just lost her mother Ellen. Surprised at how little sadness she feels, she begins to think of her family ties. Why did Ellen take so much interest in her granddaughter, a child whose anxiety transpires through asymmetrical features and the haunted look in her eyes? What were the matriarch’s enigmatic rituals all about? Annie decides to investigate, and will exhume secrets that had better been left buried. The Grahams will soon learn that family heritage can be a burden to bear. Unpredictable, nerve-racking, radical… Hereditary is a shock that is hard to accurately describe. By conjuring an incredible sense of suspense and using dizzying variations of scales, Ari Aster offers up a nightmarish vision of the family unit. No film had thus managed to strike fear at the very heart of its audience since The Exorcist ! You are warned.